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Sculpture, Greek --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Agrigento (Italy) --- Antiquities.

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Marble sculpture, Roman --- Marble sculpture, Greek --- Portrait sculpture

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Le catalogue raisonné "Les Sculptures grecques de l'époque impériale. La collection du musée du Louvre" est l'occasion de découvrir un vaste corpus de cinq cent quarante statues, statuettes, têtes, torses et reliefs de tout format. Ces œuvres ont été créées du Ier siècle au IVe siècle après J.-C., quand la Grèce n'était plus maîtresse de son destin mais demeurait un foyer artistique de premier plan - cette Grèce conquise qui a conquis à son tour son farouche vainqueur, Rome, comme le disait Horace. Le marbre dans lequel elles sont sculptées est souvent blanc, qu'il vienne du Pentélique, de Paros ou de Thasos, mais patiné par le temps de mille manières. D'autres marbres, surprenants, peuvent être noir, rouge ou gris. Feuilleter les pages de cet ouvrage permet ainsi de remarquer toutes les nuances des matériaux que les artistes et les artisans de l'Antiquité aimaient tailler pour représenter une myriade de scènes et de personnages mythiques ou historiques. Toutes ces œuvres sont parvenues en France au fil des siècles depuis le règne de Louis XIV : le catalogue rappelle que certaines des statues présentées ont jadis peuplé la galerie des Glaces ou le parc de Versailles. D'autres ont révolutionné la perception de la civilisation gréco-romaine au XIXe siècle. Beaucoup stimulent aujourd'hui encore l'imagination des visiteurs du Louvre.

Sculpture, Greek --- Musée du Louvre. --- Sculpture grecque. --- Musée du Louvre (Paris).

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Introducing eight centuries of Greek sculpture, this latest addition to The Met's compelling and widely acclaimed 'How to Read' series traces this artistic tradition from its early manifestations in the Geometric period (ca. 900-700 BCE) through the groundbreaking creativity of the Archaic and Classical periods to the dramatic achievements of the Hellenistic Age (323-31 BCE). The 40 works of art featured represent a broad range of objects and materials, both sacred and utilitarian, in metal, marble, gold, ivory, and terracotta. Sculptures of deities and architectural elements are joined by depictions of athletes, animals, and performers, as well as by funerary reliefs, perfume vases, and jewelry. The accompanying text both provides insight into Greek art as a whole and illuminates centuries of Greek life. Detailed commentaries on each work and an overview of major themes in Greek art offer a fascinating, object-focused introduction to one of the most influential cultures in Western civilization.

Sculpture, Greek. --- Sculpture --- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

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"Through the 19th century, as archaeology started to emerge as a systematic discipline, plaster casting became a widely-adopted technique, newly applied by archaeologists to document and transmit discoveries from their expeditions. The Parthenon sculptures were some of the first to be cast. In the late 18th century and the first years of the 19th century, the French artist Fauvel and Lord Elgin's men conducted campaigns on the Athenian Acropolis. Both created casts of parts of the Parthenon sculptures that they did not remove and these were sent back to France and Britain where they were esteemed and displayed alongside other, original sections. Henceforth, casting was established as an essential archaeological tool and grew exponentially over the course of the century. Such casts are now not only fascinating historical objects but may also be considered time capsules, capturing the details of important ancient works when they were first moulded in centuries past. This book examines the role of 19th century casts as an archaeological resource and explores how their materiality and spread impacted the reception of the Parthenon sculptures and other Greek and Roman works. Investigation of their historical context is combined with analysis of new digital models of the Parthenon sculptures and their casts. Sensitive 3D imaging techniques allow investigation of the surface markings of the objects in exceptionally fine detail and enable quantitative comparative studies comparing the originals and the casts. The 19th century casts are found to be even more accurate, but also complex, than anticipated; through careful study of their multiple layers, we can retrieve surface information now lost from the originals through weathering and vandalism"--

Classical antiquities --- Archaeology --- Plaster casts. --- Friezes --- Three-dimensional imaging in archaeology --- Relief (Sculpture), Greek --- Expertising. --- Methodology. --- Parthenon (Athens, Greece) --- Sculpture --- Archeology --- casts [sculpture] --- restoration [process] --- conservation [discipline] --- classical archaeology --- sculpting --- friezes [entablature components] --- Parthenon